Studies in Indian planing / edited by V. S. Mahajan

The present volume is related to the experi ence of planning in India and contains papers from experts in planning and development. It covers areas like Planning Process; Growth and Income Distribution; Operational and Strategic Aspects of Planning; Poverty Alleviation System: and Programmes; Decentralised Planning; Plan Administration; Financing of Plans; Prices, Inflation and Savings; Labour and Wage Policy Approach to Education; and Future Framework. It also reproduces a document Plan for Solving Unemployment in Rural India which was the result of close deliberations by a group of dedicated persons, many of them possessing long experience in planning either as teachers or as administrators. This document needs to be debated at the national level and also seriously considered by the Planning Commission and other bodies involved in the planned develop ment of this country.

This outstanding book will be of great use to teachers, scholars and students of economics, commerce, public administration, rural develop ment and to planners, policy-makers and administrators.